In/Visible War

In/Visible War addresses a paradox of twenty-first century American warfare. The editors examine how the contemporary visual American experience of war is ubiquitous and utterly present in public, popular culture, and yet war is simultaneously invisible or absent; we lack a lived sense that “America” is at war.

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Paradoxical In/visibility of War John Louis Lucaites and Jon Simons Part I: Seeing War Chapter 1: How Photojournalism Has Framed the War in Afghanistan David Campbell     Chapter 2: Returning Soldiers and the In/visibility of Combat Trauma Christopher J. Gilbert and John Louis Lucaites     Chapter 3: (Re)fashioning PTSD’s Warrior Project Jeremy G. Gordon     Chapter 4: Unremarkable Suffering: Banality, Spectatorship, and War’s In/visibilities Rebecca A. Adelman and Wendy Kozol Transition “War Is Fun,” a Photo-Essay Nina Berman     Chapter 5: Laying bin Laden to Rest: A Case Study of Terrorism and the Politics of Visibility Jody Madeira     Part II: Not Seeing War Chapter 6: Digital War and the Public Mind: Call of Duty Reloaded, Decoded Roger Stahl     Chapter 7: A Cinema of Consolation: Post-9/11 Super Invasion Fantasy De Witt Douglas Kilgore     Chapter 8: Differential Configurations: In/visibility through the Lens of Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2008) Claudia Breger     Chapter 9: Canine Rescue, Civilian Casualties, and the Long Gulf War Purnima Bose Part III: Theorizing the In/visibility of War Chapter 10: The In/visibility of Liberal Peace: Perpetual Peace and Enduring Freedom Jon Simons Chapter 11: Why War? Baudrillard, Derrida, and the Absolute Televisual Image Diane Rubenstein Chapter 12: War in the Twenty-first Century: Visible, Invisible, or Superpositional? James Der Derian     Notes on Contributors Photo Credits Index